I am so grateful that my mother taught me household skills, and that my husband's parents taught him household skills. We now live in a place where it is difficult to just purchase a fix for broken things (either by buying a new item or by hiring someone to fix it for you) and where there are no inexpensive restaurants. I'm very grateful for this, too, because it enables us to use those household skills that I think we would have been very tempted to let moulder if we had continued to live in the United States.
This last Christmas, my best friend gave me an embroidery she had made. I gave her a tablecloth, and I gave my husband a set of curtains I had made to replace our old, torn ones. My husband gave me an earthenware pie plate, and rebuilt the creaky window shutters as a gift, too. And these gifts are so much more meaningful and memorable than whatever quickly-obsolete gadgets we would have likely felt compelled to throw at each other for Christmas if we hadn't moved to a place where household skills are valued.
One however is overlooked, lots of people want/ed out of home because it was nothing like " each individual is treated not as a person of eternal worth who is connected to other persons in relations of mutual love and service".
I am so grateful that my mother taught me household skills, and that my husband's parents taught him household skills. We now live in a place where it is difficult to just purchase a fix for broken things (either by buying a new item or by hiring someone to fix it for you) and where there are no inexpensive restaurants. I'm very grateful for this, too, because it enables us to use those household skills that I think we would have been very tempted to let moulder if we had continued to live in the United States.
This last Christmas, my best friend gave me an embroidery she had made. I gave her a tablecloth, and I gave my husband a set of curtains I had made to replace our old, torn ones. My husband gave me an earthenware pie plate, and rebuilt the creaky window shutters as a gift, too. And these gifts are so much more meaningful and memorable than whatever quickly-obsolete gadgets we would have likely felt compelled to throw at each other for Christmas if we hadn't moved to a place where household skills are valued.
This raises lots of important issues I think.
One however is overlooked, lots of people want/ed out of home because it was nothing like " each individual is treated not as a person of eternal worth who is connected to other persons in relations of mutual love and service".